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Day Conference at the King's Manor

Saturday 11 March 2006

ANTIQUARIANISM AND CULTURAL POLITICS

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PROGRAMME

9.30-10.00 Registration

10.00-10.45 Phil Connell (Cambridge), 'British Identities and the Politics of Ancient Poetry in Later Eighteenth-Century England'

10.45-11.30 Jim Watt (York), 'Thomas Percy and China'

11.30-11.45 Tea/coffee

11.45-12.30 Tom Jones (St. Andrews), 'Encounter History and the Origins of Poetic Language'

12.30-1.15 Clare O'Halloran (Cork), 'Division and Faction: Irish Antiquaries in Comparative Perspective, c.1770-1810'

1.15-2.15 Lunch

2.30-3.15 Rosemary Sweet (Leicester), '"Our National Antiquities": Eighteenth-Century Antiquaries and the Medieval Past'

3.15-4.00 Corinna Russell (Cambridge), 'Romance and the Ethics of Historiography in Radcliffe and Scott'

4.00-5.00 Round-table discussion